听美文故事记6级单词08-01

Unit 8 1. A Brother Like That A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it. Is this yo

听美文故事记6级单词08-03

3. Waiting for the Breeze Lying in bed by an open window and listen.No air conditioning？How can you sleep?a friend asks, horrified．I've just revealed that my family has decided to shut the air conditioner off and trim our electric bill. Nobody op

听美文故事记6级单词07-09

9. Pessimism Raises Dementia Risks, Study Finds Pessimistic, anxious and depressed people may have a higher risk of dementia, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. A study of a group of 3,500 people showed that those who scored high for pessimism on

听美文故事记6级单词09-06

6. Time Runs out for World Records World records in many athletic events are peaking - and will not be broken unless athletes take drugs, say researchers. The study, Are there limits to running world records?, suggests faster times may prove elusive.

听美文故事记6级单词10-10

Thomas Henry Huxley May 5,1883 I beg leave to thank you for the extremely kind and appreciative manner in which you have received the toast of Science.It is the more grateful to me to hear that toast proposed in an assembly of this kind,because I hav

听美文故事记6级单词03-04

Earthquake Jolts Tokyo from bed An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook the Tokyo area before dawn, jolting many residents out of bed and causing minor injuries to at least 19 people. The quake registered at 4:46 am with the epicenter

听美文故事记6级单词03-02

Forbes' list has new names; Gates No. 12005年福布斯富豪榜又有新变动，比尔盖茨仍旧稳居榜首 Thanks to a surge in demand for steel, the Internet and Scandinavian sofas, there are some new names among the very richest of the world'

听美文故事记6级单词05-06

6.King Maosolos I have lying, over me in Halicarnassus, a gigantic monument such as no other dead person has,adorned in the finest way with statues of horses and men carved most realistically from the best quality marble.King Maussollos in Lucian[2]

听美文故事记6级单词07-04

4. Why Hearty Women Outlive Men? The age-old riddle of why many women live longer than men has been solved. It's their pumping power, British researchers have found. On average, women live five years longer than men and women over the age of 60 are n

听美文故事记6级单词07-02

The ups and downs of life may seem to have no predictable plan. But scientists know there are very definite patterns that almost all people share. Even if you've passed some of your prime, you still have other prime years to experience in the future.

听美文故事记6级单词03-09

Why I had to help my sister in suicide A man who comforted his terminally ill sister while she attempted to commit suicide will not face charges . Graham Lawson faced the possibility of 14 years in jail because he watched his 48-year-old sister Sue .

听美文故事记6级单词03-08

8. Mystery as Big Ben falls Silent for an Hour The chimes of Big Ben were silenced for over an hour on Friday night but the cause remains a mystery, an engineer said today. The Palace of Westminster's 147-year-old clock, considered to be one of the m

听美文故事记6级单词03-07

7.Australia Records Highest Birth Rate in 9 Years Australia has recorded its highest annual birth rate in nine years, with indications that couples are encouraged by low unemployment and economic stability to have babies. Population figures from the

英语励志美文精华 64

I Live Four Lives at a Time by Alice Thompson Everyone who has past his first few birthdays has some kind of guideline or things in which he believes. Its hard to put them in words that mean anything. I live a life of four dimensionsa wife, a mother,

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Philosophy from a Tugboat BY GEORGE YOUNG ONE NIGHT many years ago I was on the bridge of a ship that passed one of our large cities on a quiet night I saw its lights reflected in the sky and heard the rumblings of the city's noises. As I looked to m

听美文故事记6级单词01-02

2. What price happiness? You dont need millions to be happy. At The Happiness Institute in Australia, a couple of hundred dollars may do the trick（获得成功）. Since the institute opened its doors this year, men and women of all ages have been

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Walk Clean Around the Hill By Darryl F. Zanuck Now that I can look back across the years, from the so-called vantage point of experience and two world wars, extensive travel and contact with many outstanding personalities, it gives me a great deal of

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Baseball Has a Religion Too by Joe Williams There is a saying at the race track that you can't rule a man off for trying. I believe in this approach to life on this earth. I believe in God. I believe in my country. I believe in basic human decency. I

美文故事之找谁倚靠 第43期:面朝太阳(下)

Count unexpected laughter, 数数未曾期待的笑声， Count undeserved grace, 数数不期而至的礼遇， Count Passion and Love and Dreams yet to be born, 数数你拥有的激情和爱，还有将要萌生的梦想。 And bow your head and s

美文故事之找谁倚靠 第41期:大英雄(下)

Superman made money as Clark Kent, a newspaper reporter. 超人克拉克肯特依靠做报纸记者挣钱。 Batman made money as Bruce Wayne, a rich industrialist. 蝙蝠侠布鲁斯韦恩靠做实业家挣钱。 Spiderman made money as Peter Parker